Smart Microgrids: Overview and Outlook

The idea of changing our energy system from a hierarchical design into a set of nearly independent microgrids becomes feasible with the availability of small renewable energy generators. The smart microgrid concept comes with several challenges in research and engineering targeting load balancing, pricing, consumer integration and home automation. In this paper we rst provide an overview on these challenges and present approaches that target the problems identied. While there exist promising algorithms for the particular eld, we see a missing integration which specically targets smart microgrids. Therefore, we propose an architecture that integrates the presented approaches and denes interfaces between the identied components such as generators, storage, smart and \dumb" devices.

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